What is VIPER?
VIPER helps you analyse and understand the cause of death (COD) data generated by verbal autopsy (VA).
Using the Guidelines for interpreting verbal autopsy data as it's foundation, VIPER guides you through the five steps for the interpretation of VA results.
Turn your VA data into visual insights
Get visualisations of data, estimates for completeness of death reporting, age/sex breakdowns of your data, and see the cause-specific mortality fractions for various demographics.
Import VA data from SmartVA
Import your SmartVA data in four easy steps.
Straightforward and easy to use
Developed in Excel so you can modify to suit your needs and offer a familiar, accessible interface.
Specifications
Requires Excel 2010 onwards
Language: English
Data import: SmartVA
Comparison data: GBD 2017
Want more information?
Here are some links to VIPER resources
Video (coming soon)
How to import SmartVA data in VIPER
instructional video
Article
What are the five steps for interpreting VA data?
PDF
Download the guidelines